<TITLE>09. Par 30-32</TITLE>L-30 Now, we're going to start, by memory. I would call it out; you can mark it down on paper if you wish to, these Scriptures that I wish to read. We can start in Luke or John, either one, on the first chapter. And John might be good or--and to start with. And we find Him into a place now to where He's--He's got some disciples. And there's one of them by the name of Philip. And he was really converted, because as soon as he got faith, he wanted to find somebody else to get saved. That's a good sign he--he was saved, when he wants to tell somebody else about it.
And so he goes off around the hill... I think the measurement of the place is about, maybe, I'd say, any--why, ten, twenty, miles or more, around from where Jesus was preaching at the time. And he goes to find a fine friend of his by the name of Nathanael, a righteous, religious man. So when he finds Nathanael, Nathanael was under a tree praying. And so Philip said to Nathanael; he said, "Come and see Who I have found: Jesus of Nazareth, the Son of Joseph."
And now, this man was a good man; he was very orthodox. So he said, "Could there be any good thing come out of Nazareth?"
And I think Nathanael gave him the best answer that--that--Philip, rather, give him the best answer that could be given; he said, "Come and see." That's the best way to do, come and see. Said, "You come and see."

L-31 So down the road they went. And when they finally located Jesus... We wouldn't know, he might've just walked up in the audience, like you'd be setting. Or he might come into the prayer line. Let's think that he just walked up in the audience, or stand in the audience. Jesus standing there praying for the sick, and the Pharisees, and doctors and religious men standing around watching, seeing what He was doing, in their hearts criticize Him, because He just told them they was a bunch of snakes in the grass. And He said, "Oh, you generation of vipers," and so--or snakes. And so then when we... He said, "They got eyes and they can't see; they got ears, and they can't hear." And yet they were just as orthodox as they could be. No one could put a hand on their life, holy men, good men, renown men, Bible scholars, far beyond what we got today.
They had to come not just an ordinary men like we are; they had to come out of the lineage to be a priest. They had to come out of the levitical priesthood, out of Levi. If it wasn't borned by this holy man, his whole lineage coming down like this, of being perfectly good priests, and coming through... And even one little jot, or anything wrong, they'd stone them to death. They had to walk the line. They had to be orthodox, gun barrel straight. They had to be real men. Yes, sir. And they had to know that law. And all of that, Jesus said, "they was of the devil."

L-32 Wouldn't that be a big mouthful for someone to say today about a man that's a Ph.D. and a LL.D., Doctor of Divinity? And somebody would say he's of the--his father is the devil. Why, they'd take the same kind of a spasm they did back there about it. They wouldn't... Why, no, sir. Why...
And here they all stood up there, coming around calling Him a Rabbi, and so forth. They wanted to see what His theology was. And so they was drawing their opinion. And so while He was a preaching away, or praying for the sick, up come Nathanael, walking down there, him and Philip together. Jesus turns and looks straight at Nathanael and said, "Behold, an Israelite in whom there is no guile."
Why, it startled this fellow. "Why," he said, "I never seen the Man in my life. How did He know I was an Israelite in whom there was no guile? Why, I could have been a sinner; I could have been a Galilean; I could have been anything. How would He know this? But He knows that I..."


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